WHY USE HFCS

Consumers are more mindful about sweeteners and health, but what do they actually buy?

HFCS: Versatility Adds Value

HFCS is one of the most versatile ingredients on the market. It adds texture, helps keep color, maintains quality and enhances flavor in many foods and beverages. Those are real value-adds. At the same time, HFCS helps food and beverage professionals keep costs down—for themselves and their customers. As an ingredient, HFCS costs less than any other caloric sweetener and offers a more stable pricing history than sugar.

How, for example, does the cost of HFCS compare to beet sugar? Try the Sweetener Cost Comparison Tool for an up-to-date measure of the current difference in cost.

In addition, because it comes in liquid form, HFCS is easier and less expensive to handle in the manufacturing process. With an ingredient this versatile, it’s no wonder HFCS is the sweetener of choice for so many food and beverage professionals. To learn more about how using HFCS benefits your business, select an industry below.

How HFCS Helps Your Industry

Food companies formulate products to create foods and beverages that appeal to consumer needs and preferences. HFCS enables food and beverage manufacturers to create the flavors, textures and freshness that consumers want while saving millions in manufacturing costs.

For example, using sugar instead of HFCS in soft drinks almost doubles sweetener costs.1 However, for food and beverage manufacturers using HFCS, they can pass the saving onto their customers and allow for greater profit margins.

At the grocery, shoppers are looking for good prices and great-tasting food. HFCS helps grocery retailers offer both. Products using HFCS are less expensive to produce than those made with sugar, and the costs saved are realized all the way through checkout. From ketchup to fruit drinks, yogurt to bakery bread, HFCS is an ingredient used in some of today’s most popular food products, which helps grocers ring up more sales.

Additionally, for those grocers that produce their own private-label food and beverage products, HFCS helps them keep manufacturing costs down—as they pass on the saving and value to their customers.

In today’s economy, consumers are seeking a dining experience that’s as delicious as it is affordable. HFCS helps restaurants offer those menu items that keep tables turning while keeping ingredient and operations costs in their place. With HFCS, restaurants can serve the perfect combination of big taste at the right price, for their diners and their bottom line.

Stability - HFCS maintains the long-term quality of beverages and condiments by protecting them from variations due to storage temperature fluctuations or low product acidity.

Consistency - High fructose corn syrup has a lower freezing point, so frozen beverage concentrates can be poured straight from the freezer and are easier for consumers to thaw and mix with water.

Freezing Point - High fructose corn syrup has a lower freezing point. With HFCS, frozen beverage concentrates have the added convenience of being pourable straight from the freezer, and they’re easier for consumers to thaw and mix with water.

Baking - The sugars in HFCS are quickly and easily fermented, resulting in sweeter bread that is more economical to make than with table sugar.2

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